MUWAMultidimensional

Unrestricted World Access

Sean CameronRomain Briot

Ryan Culp

Goals

• To explore strange new worlds and go where no Steve has gone before.

• Create a world that can familiarize a user with n-spacial-dimensional environments. Starting with simple conceptslike movement and position and moving up to more complex things.

Motivation

• Adding spacial dimensions greatly improves complexity. Even 3D worlds use shortcuts and per-rendering to achieve the desired effects.

• Many people have a very hard time understanding this concept. This is a fun opportunity to try and show them the concept in a form that should be easier to understand.

Technical Challenges

The step from 3 to 4 D is the same multiple as the growth from 2 to 3 D. We need to simulate a 4D world and keep the work load manageablefor 'real time' exploration.

We are used to experiencing a 3D world in 2D (screen). The challenge here is to express the 4D world on a 2D screen in a way the user can understand it. (This will inevitably impose limits on the controls.)

We will need to define the 4D world to be simulated, and integrate in how objects act across the 4th dimension.

Different people learn different ways. We can't accommodate all people

Progress of current Milestone

Module/feature Completion % To do

GUI 30% Objectives, Object "Alpha Shadow"(?)

Levels 5% Want more power. Pushed to next Milestone

Code Clean Up 95% Change Menus from Object to HUD based

Fun 5% Make the game actually FUN.

New Mechanics 5% Object interaction, Event triggers

Milestones

Milestone 4 (Sep 30):◦ -Finish key game mechanics (menus, levels, player interactions, dialog).

Milestone 5 (Oct 28):◦ -Build core tutorial levels (maybe a sandbox too depending on milestone 4)◦ -Poster for Senior Design Showcase◦ -Demo video

Milestone 6 (Nov 25):◦ -Playtests◦ -Polishing◦ -Finish demo video

Tasks for next Milestone

Task Ryan Sean Briot

1. Website, Resource restructuring, Basic levels/intigrations.

100% 0% 0%

2. Menus, HUD 0% 100% 0%

3. Player-object interactions

0% 0% 100%

4. Anything else as needed 33% 33% 34%

Questions?

➢ No, Time is not a “spacial” dimension. You can argue that it is but for this project we are making the distinction between “spacial” and “temporal” dimensions.

➢ Yes, I am a god.➢ 42